That's sounds pretty standard to me.

Conferences come in two types - the ones that are cheap (to attract average people) and the ones that are super expensive (that corporations pay to send staff to).

E.g. the blackhat security conference in las vegas cost $2900 usd.

> E.g. the blackhat security conference in las vegas cost $2900 usd.

Meanwhile CCC standard tickets are 175€..

Indeed. CCC is a "hacker" conference, blackhat (despite its name) is much more corporate [i have not attended either]

That, I'd love to attend, and it's even a price the boss would go for. Sadly, it's the travel part that I can never get funded.

That's the other aspect - a thousand dollar ticket isn't that large a part of the price if you also have to fly everyone in and get hotels for multiple days (and probably a nice hotel in an expensive location)

Well, $1300CAD. How much is a four day conference supposed to cost?

Like...I dunno, it does seem like a lot. But JSWorld was apparently 250EUR for a one-day ticket, so it comes out a slightly worse value.

VueJS Amsterdam is two days for 700 EUR - so that's a considerably worse value. React Miami is $550USD for two days, so that's also a little worse.

PyCon, on the other hand, is substantially cheaper - nine whole days for only $450USD.

I dunno man, I can go to a 4 day music festival that costs like $250-$300 for the weekend, I'm sure that the budget for the performers is a hell of a lot more than whatever the budget for the speakers at this event is.

The music festival comes out of your budget, not your employer's staff training budget.

These conferences can be expensive because the costs are not directly paid for by attendes

A music festival has tens of thousands of attendees. A large conference might have a few hundred . . . and not all conferences are large.

I've only attended one tech conference in my life and I think the cost was approximately $200. There were approximately 500 attendees.

Something doesn't make sense with these prices here.

I'm guessing the event space is the largest fraction of the cost.

They don‘t personally.

It’s typically a training event paid by the employer.

C++ developers can afford this just fine

... but they just won't be interested unless someone else's paying.

Speak for yourself.

Rent out their place on Airbnb while they attend.